24. The Vine

John 15:5 (NRSV) — 5a I am the vine, you are the branches. … …

"I am the Vine." Christ did not keep this mystery hidden from His disciples. He revealed it, first in His Words here and then in Power when God’s Holy Spirit came down. He will reveal it to us too, first in our thoughts, confessions and desires these words awaken in our hearts and then in Power by God’s Holy Spirit. Let us wait on Him to show us all the Heavenly Meaning of the Mystery. Let each day, in our quiet time, in the inner chamber with Him and His Word, our chief thought and aim be to get the heart fixed on Him, in the assurance that all that a vine ever can do for its branches, my Lord Jesus will do, is doing, will continue to do for me. Give Him time, give Him your ear that He may whisper and explain the Divine Secret: "I am the Vine."

Remember, Christ is the Vine of God's planting, and you are a branch of God's grafting. Wait before God, in Christ. Wait for all grace from God in Christ. Yield yourself to bear the more fruit the Vine-grower asks, in Christ. And pray much for the revelation of the Mystery that all the love and power of God that rested on Christ 

is working in you too. 

I am God's Vine, Jesus says—all I am I have from Him; 

all I am is for you—God will work it in you.